Introduction to the book "Gozra Lorenzo: Photography"

Image-creator supreme, Gozra Lozano documents his obsessions; the fabulous kings and queens of the night, legendary pop-stars, fantastic Faster Pussycat predator women, real girls and unreal girls and the androgynous in between. Gozra is an insider, collaborating with these uncategorisable gender out-laws, and rock and roll exotics. No bystander, Gozra is a co-conspirator in these elaborate highly stylised surrreal fantasies.

With his brilliant and perverse imagination, Gozra metamorphoses the human into supersexy devas, divas and daemons. "I don´t do reality,"he says, "I present my subjects in a glamorous way, the way they want to be represented."

Yet under all this shimmer and sheen, Gozra displays a deep empathy with his subjects; these imperious, rapacious, predatory women and his tender thugs sporting their bloodied faces."

Whether crowned with thorns, or bedecked by extravagant orchids, garlanded in roses or re-envisaging a modern day Madonna La Pietà, in Gozra´s work the human body becomes almost divine and if not against nature, as Huysmans had it, his work somehow transcends or transmutes it "putting the more into glamour."